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American wins Nobel for behavioral economics

Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 by Mercedes Poole

Nobel prize-winning economist's research into how you make choices could make your life better

Once considered an outlier, behavioral economics today has become part of generally accepted economic thinking, in large part thanks to Thaler's ideas. The prize in economic sciences was added by Sweden's central bank in 1968.

The Swedish Academy of Sciences said Thalers research has built a bridge between the economic and psychological analyses of individual decision-making.

While she says it's hard to overcome some of these tendencies outlined in Thaler's research, Madrian says "the key is to recognize your shortcomings and then try to set yourself up to limit their effects when you're not in a vulnerable situation".

Thaler, the University of Chicago professor who this week won the Nobel Prize in economics, expressed his views about President Donald Trump in the form of a simple, unflattering number.

The prize was awarded for understanding the psychology of economics,  Swedish Academy of Sciences secretary Goeran Hansson said Monday. Thaler is one of the founding fathers of behavioural economics, a field that shows that people often make irrational decisions, that don't serve their best interests.

The Nobel committee said Thalers work shows how human traits affect individual decisions as well as market outcomes.

Since it was first awarded in 1969, Americans have dominated the economics prize, with 56 of the 79 laureates holding U.S. citizenship, including those who have dual nationalities.

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